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Martin Shkreli

1983 - Today

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Martin Shkreli (; born March 17, 1983) is an American investor and businessman. Shkreli is the co-founder of the hedge funds Elea Capital, MSMB Capital Management, and MSMB Healthcare, the co-founder and former CEO of pharmaceutical firms Retrophin and Turing Pharmaceuticals, and the former CEO of start-up software company Gödel Systems, which he founded in August 2016. In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Shkreli has received more than 17,544,082 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Martin Shkreli is the 823rd most popular businessperson (down from 669th in 2019), the 17,269th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,082nd in 2019) and the 301st most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Martin Shkreli ranks 823 out of 847. Before him are Dick Costolo, Andrew Puzder, Sabeer Bhatia, Chanda Kochhar, Tony Hsieh, and Matt Mullenweg. After him are Parag Agrawal, Tessy Antony de Nassau, Tom Steyer, Cyrus Mistry, Natalia Ponce de León, and Steve Coast.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Martin Shkreli ranks 809. Before him are Jason Cunliffe, Danny Granger, Maximiliano Richeze, Roya Sadat, Sarah Wright, and Xavier Chen. After him are Evan Taubenfeld, Somen Tchoyi, Hitomi Kanehara, Sergei Kornilenko, Marco Padalino, and Frederik Nielsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Shkreli ranks 17,269 out of 20,380. Before him are Sarah Wright (1983), Richey Reneberg (1965), Kris Allen (1985), Luke Bryan (1976), Vivienne Medrano (1992), and Gerald Henderson (1956). After him are Susan Dunklee (1986), Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975), Spencer Dinwiddie (1993), Craig Thompson (1975), Bailey Chase (1972), and Cody Kasch (1987).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Martin Shkreli ranks 301. Before him are Scott Forstall (1968), Alexis Ohanian (1983), Dick Costolo (1963), Andrew Puzder (1950), Tony Hsieh (1973), and Matt Mullenweg (1984). After him are Tom Steyer (1957), Sara Blakely (1971), Christopher Poole (1988), Randi Zuckerberg (1982), Steve Huffman (1983), and Brad Keselowski (1984).

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